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intrepid_trystan
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October 29, 2017
Question

Disable (turn off) auto sync with Lightroom Mobile... (killing my bandwidth!)

  • October 29, 2017
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Hello,

I've searched everywhere and can't find information on how to disable auto sync with Lightroom Mobile..  I signed in to try out the local adjustment tools on the trial, and now because I am signed in it wants to upload all the photos I have edited with lightroom mobile, which is around 350 very large files.  This starts to suck my wifi bandwidth to where I can't even load a website on my desktop computer..

The only way to stop the sync is to logout (which now I can't even edit anything because it now requires me to log back in to edit at all) or I can stop it by turning off wifi on my phone.  But I do not want to turn off wifi on my phone when I'm at home as I would then start using up a lot of cellular data...

Seems like this is something that has always been standard to have as an option.  I also don't want to be storing any of my photos on any cloud based storage regardless of bandwidth usage...

Anyone know how to stop this?  Thanks for your assistance

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      Noneatall
      Participant
      December 9, 2021

      Hi again...update....

      I found a way to stop the syncing. On my mobile device (mine is Huawei p40pro+) I deleted all photos under 'Camera' which left me with 'All photos' 'Screenshots' and 'Favourite'.

      It would appear that Lightroom was syncing the 'Camera' photos only.

      It stopped immediately and I can now start from scratch and download to Lightroom one at a time.

      Good Luck.

       

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      jonathanlurie
      Participant
      December 19, 2017

      Hi,

      Same problem here, unlike the capture from Jao, the cloud icon does not come with a preference icon (on my Android 7.0 on the LG G6)

      I remember that on the previous version of LR Mobile we could select a collection in which would be uploaded all the pictures but this option seems to not be available anymore. Now, the only thing possible is to watch this cloud icon with its blue circle eating your data connection or consuming your wifi by uploading the 10000 failed attempts to take a nice picture of something. It's also good to mention that all those crappy pictures that get uploaded (because unless you are a damn genius, most of the pictures you take are pretty much worthless) progressively fills up the creative cloud quota.

      Is manual deleting the only option? (Seriously Adobe, you who claim to be so advanced in machine learning, data sharing and all...?)

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        josepht46513745
        Participant
        April 20, 2018

        This is ridiculous. I have to download every photo I take with my phone in order to edit ONE photo in Lightroom CC? This pretty much makes LR CC unusable. I'm going to stop paying for it.

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          Jao vdLCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          April 20, 2018

          joseph, you don't have to turn this on at all. You can simply take a single photo in from your photo roll into Lightroom CC if you only want to edit a single photo, or use the camera inside Lightroom CC to take an image that will only show up in Lightroom. You can even shoot in raw that way.

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          Jao vdLCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          October 29, 2017

          P.S. if the uploading kills your download bandwidth, you need a better modem on your internet (more channels solves this) or you need a router that supports QoS. This is a very common problem with asymmetric internet service (higher download than upload bandwidth) that is solvable with better hardware.

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          Mike5D22
          Participant
          December 14, 2022

          No one asked for this response. PS sometimes people stay in countries where internet is slow and sometimes people don't want to cloud sync. This is why some of us still use Lightroom classic and some of us don't want this nonsense and want to edit in phone.

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            Jao vdLCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            October 29, 2017

            You can stop the sync with the cloud by clicking on the cloud icon and hover your mouse over where it says "syncing photos ..". This will turn into a button you can use to pause syncing with the cloud. The same works on your mobile devices.

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            Noneatall
            Participant
            December 9, 2021

            But when you tap on the cloud and stop syncing you are then unable to load anything up to lightroom for editing until you allow the syncing to restart and complete upload. Lightroom for some reason has decided to upload every photo on my phone at the moment (around 6000)and every 15 mins I go in and delete all the uploaded photos. Am SO cross about this. I didn't ask for it, want it or need it. Am fizzing with anger.

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              knut ivars74240175
              Participant
              November 12, 2024

              Having the same totally annoying "have to sync to cloud" ! For this reason I am looking to change to another photoeditor. As soon as I find one I like... BYE BYE USELESS ADOBLE LIGHTROOM MOBILE! The only thing Adobe cares about is making money in two ways:
              1. You have to subscribe instead of buying the Adobe suit
              2. Making money on their storage solution that I HAVE TO USE 

              The way Adobe Lightroom works with storage local/internet totally sucs. Totally hate it

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